Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, 45, and his girlfriend Heather Christie, 22, have broken up after three years together. The two have a nine month old son, Everly Bear, and are said to have been living apart for over a month. In her statement acknowledging their breakup, Christie called Kiedis a great dad and added a little thinly veiled dig at the end:

The Red Hot Chili Peppers singer, 45, and Christie, 22, a former model, recently ended their relationship of more than three years and have been living apart since June, according to sources.

The former couple have a son together, Everly Bear, who was born last October.

“Anthony is a great dad and I will love him forever for giving me the gift of life,” Christie tells PEOPLE. “I really hope he finds what he’s looking for.”

[From People.com]

They’ve been dating since Kiedis was 42 and Christie was just 19. That’s a huge age difference and it’s not like that relationship was going to last anyway. I wonder what she means by “finds what he’s looking for” though. Kiedis is into Kabbalah and it’s possible she’s referring to that, but it’s probably just a standard breakup issue like he’s been looking for companionship elsewhere or they drifted apart and have different interests now. In photos I found of Keidis from May he wasn’t wearing the red string, so he may not be that into Kabbalah at this point anyway.

Anthony Kiedis and Heather Christie are shown on 5/12/06. Credit: Dimitri Halkidis / WENN

How does he ever find the time to surf for porn? You would think decades of adolescent rocking out while eliminating all body fat, shooting shirtless videos to exploit the aforementioned fatless torso and then running out to the dog run to feed Flea - one’s days would be quite full. You would be wrong:

Red Hot Chili Peppers star Anthony Kiedis had to ween himself off an addiction to internet porn when he realised his obsession was becoming unhealthy.
Kiedis discovered his addictive personality was driving his seedy interests in cyberspace - and he had to stop before it became a major problem.

(via Female First)

Rock and roll stars used to have the decency to just tip over addictedly dead, reasonably young with pretty corpses and mourning. Now they can’t even handle the internet without KidSafe Firewalls … ohh the dangers of the wild broadband lifestyle. I rather thought Kiedis would eventually evolve into an Iggy Pop type of rock elder statesman. The evidence seems to indicate he will need large unhealthy heapings of internet porn to get back on track.

Perhaps addiction is the new Rock and Roll. … it is certainly the anthem of a generation. Celebrity after celebrity and politicians too roll into rehab after every scandal. Failing or disappeared careers are resurrected with the formula:

Find an Addiction, confess to it, publicize confession, lather, rinse, repeat. If you time it right you might boost your book’s Amazon ranking. Kiedis is actually exploring the radical cutting edge of addiction PR. The “I was almost addicted, but I stopped just in time.” A sort of Horatio Alger addiction

“When I finally got a computer, I discovered this limitless world of pornography.
“I realised the feeling that I was having was like the feeling that I used to get when I’d go score drugs. I actually had to make a commitment to myself to stop.”

That’s almost a story … I had the feeling it was going to be a story when I started to read it. I should have made a commitment to myself to stop.

Pic via exposay.com